Hi All
 
I am reading up on this subject and I am grateful for the assistance I
obtained recently. I am a beginner beekeeper and I am trying to understand
some of the theory of this highly complex activity. Some questions come to
mind, and I thought I would put then out for comment.
 
Many methods of swarm control, consist of the beekeeper taking action when
the swarming procedures have been initiated by the bees. Am I correct in
saying, that by using queen cells raised in response to the swarming
impulse, that we are perpetuating the swarming propensity, when what we
should be doing is lessening it?. If this be the case, then the Artificial
Swarming method of Swarm Control is really only creating a demand for itself.
 
Conversely, does this not make the Demaree or the Snelgrove or the Jenter
systems superior, since the queens which are raised are not raised in
response to the swarming impulse (or are they).?
 
 
Sincerely
Tom Barrett
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